Neil Patrick Harris - World-of-Newave.info http://answers.world-of-newave.info/neil-patrick-harris.htm Latest news and articles about Neil Patrick Harris en-us Copyright (c)2004-2008. All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:11:35 GMT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:11:35 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - John Harris: A way out of the ID folly http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/john-harris-a-way-out-of-the-id-folly-20081146629.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/john-harris-a-way-out-of-the-id-folly-20081146629.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:15:11 GMT It was a perfect day for a bit of news burial, and so it proved. On Tuesday, while everyone was chewing over Alistair Darling's mixture of gain and pain, a British government began issuing ID cards for the first time in 56 years, though few people seemed to notice. As well as a spread of quiet news coverage, a small group of cultural and political high-ups - Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, Brian Eno and Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty - warned of the damage to the UK's image abroad, and there were small protests in Liverpool and Cardiff, but that seemed to be it. Maybe the prospect of the Tories taking power and honouring their pledge to scrap the scheme has dampened the anti-ID camp's ardour. For now, however, the government's aim - should Labour win the next election - of introducing the cards and a national identity register by stealth, seems to be proceeding to plan. From this week, students from outside the European Economic Area and the non-European spouses of accredited British residents will need to apply for a card and go on the register. The same will soon apply to millions of other foreign nationals and airport staff; and by some time in 2012, every applicant for a new passport will be joining up.From a panicky perspective, irrespective of what happens at the next election, it's not hard to see all this coming to pass thanks to the bureaucratic equivalent of the great German war machine - though if such comparisons suggest the state at its most clunky and Kafkaesque, the government is busy wrapping its ideas in shiny inclusive packaging. Last week, for instance, it announced that transgender people will be allowed to carry two cards at once.So, the madness continues, and even people in power seem either confused or opposed. In the past few months I have spoken to one government minister who claimed the project had effectively been kicked into the long grass, and another - no leftie - who optimistically sketched out how the Brown government might have decisively served notice of lean times and a bold new direction: scrapping the renewal of Trident and calling time on the ID scheme. Fat chance, it seems. Jacqui Smith's zeal seems undimmed: the plan is becoming more concrete and the Home Office's cost projections are being vigilantly updated. In keeping with the fashion for optimistic government forecasts, it puts the cost of a newly combined passport-ID scheme at slightly more than £5bn over 10 years, though plenty of voices predict anything up to three times that amount.Relative to the huge budgetary figures dancing before our eyes, that may still seem modest - but should you want to be mischievous with the official figures, it's not hard: £5bn is a quarter of what the government expects to take back before 2015/16 via tax rises. According to the Home Office's numbers, the annual cost of the plan will peak at about £525m - on today's figures, just over 75% of the yearly proceeds from the much-discussed 45% top tax rate. If the whole lot was brought forward, it would cover nearly two years of Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme. Fiscal maths will surely inflame public opinion less than a more general complaint - that when times are tight this is exactly the kind of ill-advised cash magnet to avoid. If the era to come will be one of crackdowns on waste and anxious public audits, the Tesco mantra will be unanswerable: every little helps, and savings from the death of ID cards will be bigger than most.Here, perhaps, is the most useful argument against the scheme, and the key to the fight to come - not elegant tributes to the glories of the Liberal inheritance, or invocations of the Big Brother state, or even warnings from the more enlightened end of the Groucho Club - but something altogether more blunt: we simply can't afford it.john.harris@guardian.co.ukIdentity cardsCivil libertiesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk John Harris: A way out of the ID folly {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - It was a perfect day for a bit of news burial, and so it proved. On Tuesday, while everyone was chewing over Alistair Darling's mixture of gain and pain, a British government began issuing ID cards for the first time in 56 years, though few people seemed to notice. As well as a spread of quiet news coverage, a small group of cultural and political high-ups - Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, Brian Eno and Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty - warned of the damage to the UK's image abroad, and there were small protests in Liverpool and Cardiff, but that seemed to be it. Maybe the prospect of the Tories taking power and honouring their pledge to scrap the scheme has dampened the anti-ID camp's ardour. For now, however, the government's aim - should Labour win the next election - of introducing the cards and a national identity register by stealth, seems to be proceeding to plan. From this week, students from outside the European Economic Area and the non-European spouses of accredited British residents will need to apply for a card and go on the register. The same will soon apply to millions of other foreign nationals and airport staff; and by some time in 2012, every applicant for a new passport will be joining up.From a panicky perspective, irrespective of what happens at the next election, it's not hard to see all this coming to pass thanks to the bureaucratic equivalent of the great German war machine - though if such comparisons suggest the state at its most clunky and Kafkaesque, the government is busy wrapping its ideas in shiny inclusive packaging. Last week, for instance, it announced that transgender people will be allowed to carry two cards at once.So, the madness continues, and even people in power seem either confused or opposed. In the past few months I have spoken to one government minister who claimed the project had effectively been kicked into the long grass, and another - no leftie - who optimistically sketched out how the Brown government might have decisively served notice of lean times and a bold new direction: scrapping the renewal of Trident and calling time on the ID scheme. Fat chance, it seems. Jacqui Smith's zeal seems undimmed: the plan is becoming more concrete and the Home Office's cost projections are being vigilantly updated. In keeping with the fashion for optimistic government forecasts, it puts the cost of a newly combined passport-ID scheme at slightly more than £5bn over 10 years, though plenty of voices predict anything up to three times that amount.Relative to the huge budgetary figures dancing before our eyes, that may still seem modest - but should you want to be mischievous with the official figures, it's not hard: £5bn is a quarter of what the government expects to take back before 2015/16 via tax rises. According to the Home Office's numbers, the annual cost of the plan will peak at about £525m - on today's figures, just over 75% of the yearly proceeds from the much-discussed 45% top tax rate. If the whole lot was brought forward, it would cover nearly two years of Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme. Fiscal maths will surely inflame public opinion less than a more general complaint - that when times are tight this is exactly the kind of ill-advised cash magnet to avoid. If the era to come will be one of crackdowns on waste and anxious public audits, the Tesco mantra will be unanswerable: every little helps, and savings from the death of ID cards will be bigger than most.Here, perhaps, is the most useful argument against the scheme, and the key to the fight to come - not elegant tributes to the glories of the Liberal inheritance, or invocations of the Big Brother state, or even warnings from the more enlightened end of the Groucho Club - but something altogether more blunt: we simply can't afford it.john.harris@guardian.co.ukIdentity cardsCivil libertiesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Robin Van Persie helps answer Arsenal critics problems at Chelsea http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/football/news-and-media/robin-van-persie-helps-answer-arsenal-critics-problems-2008123891.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/football/news-and-media/robin-van-persie-helps-answer-arsenal-critics-problems-2008123891.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:51:10 GMT Patrick Barclay looks at Arsenal's ongoing crisis on PostMatch Paddy. Telegraph.Co.Uk Robin Van Persie helps answer Arsenal critics problems at Chelsea {new window}   Www.Telegraph.Co.Uk - Patrick Barclay looks at Arsenal's ongoing crisis on PostMatch Paddy.
Robin Van Persie helps answer Arsenal critics, problems at Chelsea: Football - Telegraph {...} On this week's Post-Match Paddy, Patrick Barclay commends Arsene Wenger after victory at Chelsea and looks at the players the Arsenal manager tipped to step up their performances this weekend and who did so with success. {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Recreation and Sports > Sports > Football > News and Media {PUZZLES > SUDOKU} - Sudoku Scramble: Mayer's Overlook Scores First http://articles.world-of-newave.info/games/puzzles/brain-teasers/sudoku/sudoku-scramble-mayer-s-overlook-scores-first-2008127882.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/games/puzzles/brain-teasers/sudoku/sudoku-scramble-mayer-s-overlook-scores-first-2008127882.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:38:59 GMT Sudoku Scramble: Mayer's Overlook Scores First: "Sudoku Scramble: Mayer's Overlook Scores First August 01, 2005 By Patrick J. Eves The Sudoku craze hits The Book Standard's Bestsellers charts for the first?but surely not the last?time, as Overlook Press?s first volume of The Book of Sudoku bows at No. 4 on the Games Chart. The book, a compilation of the numerical puzzles, sits alongside titles having to do with all-American traditional favorite Scrabble, as well as next to numerous ones focusing on the current 300-pound gorilla of U.S. gaming, poker. " Kirkusreviews.Com Sudoku Scramble: Mayer's Overlook Scores First {new window}   Www.Kirkusreviews.Com - Sudoku Scramble: Mayer's Overlook Scores First: "Sudoku Scramble: Mayer's Overlook Scores First August 01, 2005 By Patrick J. Eves The Sudoku craze hits The Book Standard's Bestsellers charts for the first?but surely not the last?time, as Overlook Press?s first volume of The Book of Sudoku bows at No. 4 on the Games Chart. The book, a compilation of the numerical puzzles, sits alongside titles having to do with all-American traditional favorite Scrabble, as well as next to numerous ones focusing on the current 300-pound gorilla of U.S. gaming, poker. "
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]]> Games > Puzzles > Brain Teasers > Sudoku {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - Misinformation about autoworkers' hourly compensation resurfaces on Hardball http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/misinformation-about-autoworkers-hourly-compensation-20081117936.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/misinformation-about-autoworkers-hourly-compensation-20081117936.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:54:36 GMT During the November 24 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, Republican strategist Todd Harris falsely asserted that union autoworkers earn "70, $75 an hour." Harris' claim -- which echoed the false assertion by host Chris Matthews on November 20 that members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) "negotiate for their salaries, and they're getting 70 bucks" -- was not challenged or rebutted by guest host Mike Barnicle. According to GM, the figure Harris cited includes not only current workers' hourly wages and benefits, including health care and retirement, but also retirement and health-care benefits that U.S. automakers are providing for retirees, as Media Matters for America has noted. During the Hardball segment, Democratic strategist Steve McMahon asserted, "[B]efore you go after the guy making 25 bucks an hour, you ought to squeeze a little out of the guy making 25 million for taking his company into the tank." Harris replied, in part: "Well, I don't disagree. Well, first of all, they don't make 25 bucks an hour. They make a heck of a lot more than that in Detroit." Moments later, McMahon said of Harris, "This is the first time I've really heard anybody blame the guy making 25 or 30 or even $35 an hour for the economic collapse on Wall Street," at which point Harris interjected, "Or 70, $75 an hour." Earlier in the segment, Harris said, "The UAW designed the contracts that are crippling from legacy costs. And, you know, it costs between 30 and 40 percent more in labor costs for Detroit to make a car than it costs for Toyota to make a car right here in the United States." But Harris did not acknowledge that these "legacy costs" -- medical benefits and pensions paid to retirees -- are included in the "70, $75 an hour" figure that he cited later on, falsely claiming this is what the average auto worker "make[s]." As Media Matters noted, Hardball is one of several media outlets that are advancing the false claim that auto workers make $70 per hour or more. It is a claim promoted by some media conservatives who blame auto workers for the domestic auto industry's financial straits. From the November 24 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews: BARNICLE: All right, let me ask you this, Todd. Who designed the cars? Did the UAW design these cars that nobody wants to buy? HARRIS: No. The UAW designed the contracts that are crippling from legacy costs. And, you know, it costs between 30 and 40 percent more in labor costs for Detroit to make a car than it costs for Toyota to make a car right here in the United States. And that's all because of these crippling union contracts. BARNICLE: And, Steve, that does lead to a potential problem for the incoming Obama administration, the need to step up to the unions and say, "Listen, we know you've given back a lot in your new contract, but you're going to have to give back even more right now for retirees who are on pay-less health benefits for their lives, and had the -- all of that stuff." I mean, doesn't it present a problem? McMAHON: Well, it presents a challenge, but I don't think it presents a problem. I mean, basically, the wealthy in this country have feasted at the banquet table of lower taxes, and the middle class has paid the bill. And I think, you know, to get back to Todd's point -- or to get back to your point, Mike, this is a little bit of class warfare, because you have these CEOs coming to town -- and I'm not singling out the auto industry, because I don't think that they're any worse than anybody else -- coming to town with their -- in their private jets with their huge salaries, and they're essentially saying, "We need billions and billions of taxpayer dollars." And you've got the guy who's making 25 bucks an hour on the line, and Todd's sitting there blaming him for the problem. He's not the problem. And frankly, in this country, one of the reasons we have a union movement is so that people can afford to buy the automobiles that they make. That was Henry Ford's vision. It wasn't the vision of labor. It was the vision of the owner of the company: "The people who make my cars ought to be able to afford to buy them." I think that's the right vision, and I think Senator Obama -- President-elect Obama agrees with me, and I think the majority of Americans do as well. And, you know, it's -- before it's -- before you go after the guy making 25 bucks an hour, you ought to squeeze a little out of the guy making 25 million for taking his company into the tank. BARNICLE: Todd, are you going to sit there and take that big-time dis? HARRIS: Well, I don't disagree. Well, first of all, they don't make 25 bucks an hour. They make a heck of a lot more than that in Detroit. MCMAHON: OK, 30. HARRIS: But I don't disagree. Hang the management out to dry, but we have got to have these union contracts on the table if we're going to talk about any realistic bailout for Detroit. McMAHON: This is the first time -- I've got to tell you, I've been listening to the commentary for a long time. This is the first time I've really heard anybody blame the guy making 25 or 30 or even $35 an hour for the economic collapse on Wall Street. And I've -- and it's the first time I've heard anybody seriously suggest -- HARRIS: Or 70, $75 an hour. McMAHON: It's the first time I've ever heard anybody seriously suggest that by penalizing them, you're going to fix the problem. I -- normally -- Todd's a smart guy, but he doesn't believe this. BARNICLE: No, we've got class warfare going on right here. HARRIS: I'm not talking about the problem -- I'm not talking about the problem on Wall Street. I'm talking about the problem in Detroit here. We're talking about bailouts. And if we're going to bail out Detroit, then the union -- those union contracts have got to be on the table. BARNICLE: Well, thank God we separated you two guys tonight. You're going to come to blows. Mediamatters.Org Misinformation about autoworkers' hourly compensation resurfaces on Hardball {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - During the November 24 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, Republican strategist Todd Harris falsely asserted that union autoworkers earn "70, $75 an hour." Harris' claim -- which echoed the false assertion by host Chris Matthews on November 20 that members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) "negotiate for their salaries, and they're getting 70 bucks" -- was not challenged or rebutted by guest host Mike Barnicle. According to GM, the figure Harris cited includes not only current workers' hourly wages and benefits, including health care and retirement, but also retirement and health-care benefits that U.S. automakers are providing for retirees, as Media Matters for America has noted. During the Hardball segment, Democratic strategist Steve McMahon asserted, "[B]efore you go after the guy making 25 bucks an hour, you ought to squeeze a little out of the guy making 25 million for taking his company into the tank." Harris replied, in part: "Well, I don't disagree. Well, first of all, they don't make 25 bucks an hour. They make a heck of a lot more than that in Detroit." Moments later, McMahon said of Harris, "This is the first time I've really heard anybody blame the guy making 25 or 30 or even $35 an hour for the economic collapse on Wall Street," at which point Harris interjected, "Or 70, $75 an hour." Earlier in the segment, Harris said, "The UAW designed the contracts that are crippling from legacy costs. And, you know, it costs between 30 and 40 percent more in labor costs for Detroit to make a car than it costs for Toyota to make a car right here in the United States." But Harris did not acknowledge that these "legacy costs" -- medical benefits and pensions paid to retirees -- are included in the "70, $75 an hour" figure that he cited later on, falsely claiming this is what the average auto worker "make[s]." As Media Matters noted, Hardball is one of several media outlets that are advancing the false claim that auto workers make $70 per hour or more. It is a claim promoted by some media conservatives who blame auto workers for the domestic auto industry's financial straits. From the November 24 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews: BARNICLE: All right, let me ask you this, Todd. Who designed the cars? Did the UAW design these cars that nobody wants to buy? HARRIS: No. The UAW designed the contracts that are crippling from legacy costs. And, you know, it costs between 30 and 40 percent more in labor costs for Detroit to make a car than it costs for Toyota to make a car right here in the United States. And that's all because of these crippling union contracts. BARNICLE: And, Steve, that does lead to a potential problem for the incoming Obama administration, the need to step up to the unions and say, "Listen, we know you've given back a lot in your new contract, but you're going to have to give back even more right now for retirees who are on pay-less health benefits for their lives, and had the -- all of that stuff." I mean, doesn't it present a problem? McMAHON: Well, it presents a challenge, but I don't think it presents a problem. I mean, basically, the wealthy in this country have feasted at the banquet table of lower taxes, and the middle class has paid the bill. And I think, you know, to get back to Todd's point -- or to get back to your point, Mike, this is a little bit of class warfare, because you have these CEOs coming to town -- and I'm not singling out the auto industry, because I don't think that they're any worse than anybody else -- coming to town with their -- in their private jets with their huge salaries, and they're essentially saying, "We need billions and billions of taxpayer dollars." And you've got the guy who's making 25 bucks an hour on the line, and Todd's sitting there blaming him for the problem. He's not the problem. And frankly, in this country, one of the reasons we have a union movement is so that people can afford to buy the automobiles that they make. That was Henry Ford's vision. It wasn't the vision of labor. It was the vision of the owner of the company: "The people who make my cars ought to be able to afford to buy them." I think that's the right vision, and I think Senator Obama -- President-elect Obama agrees with me, and I think the majority of Americans do as well. And, you know, it's -- before it's -- before you go after the guy making 25 bucks an hour, you ought to squeeze a little out of the guy making 25 million for taking his company into the tank. BARNICLE: Todd, are you going to sit there and take that big-time dis? HARRIS: Well, I don't disagree. Well, first of all, they don't make 25 bucks an hour. They make a heck of a lot more than that in Detroit. MCMAHON: OK, 30. HARRIS: But I don't disagree. Hang the management out to dry, but we have got to have these union contracts on the table if we're going to talk about any realistic bailout for Detroit. McMAHON: This is the first time -- I've got to tell you, I've been listening to the commentary for a long time. This is the first time I've really heard anybody blame the guy making 25 or 30 or even $35 an hour for the economic collapse on Wall Street. And I've -- and it's the first time I've heard anybody seriously suggest -- HARRIS: Or 70, $75 an hour. McMAHON: It's the first time I've ever heard anybody seriously suggest that by penalizing them, you're going to fix the problem. I -- normally -- Todd's a smart guy, but he doesn't believe this. BARNICLE: No, we've got class warfare going on right here. HARRIS: I'm not talking about the problem -- I'm not talking about the problem on Wall Street. I'm talking about the problem in Detroit here. We're talking about bailouts. And if we're going to bail out Detroit, then the union -- those union contracts have got to be on the table. BARNICLE: Well, thank God we separated you two guys tonight. You're going to come to blows.
Media Matters - Misinformation about autoworkers' hourly compensation resurfaces on Hardball {...} On Hardball , guest host Mike Barnicle did not challenge the false claim by Republican strategist Todd Harris that union autoworkers earn "70, $75 an hour," a claim also recently made on Hardball by a Heritage Foundation fellow and echoed by host Chris Matthews. {...}
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Newcastle United unlikely to be sold until New Year says Keith Harris http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/football/news-and-media/newcastle-united-unlikely-to-be-sold-until-new-year-20081111928.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/recreation-and-sports/sports/football/news-and-media/newcastle-united-unlikely-to-be-sold-until-new-year-20081111928.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:36:27 GMT Newcastle are unlikely to be sold until February if a deal is not done inside the next three weeks. Telegraph.Co.Uk Newcastle United unlikely to be sold until New Year says Keith Harris {new window}   Www.Telegraph.Co.Uk - Newcastle are unlikely to be sold until February if a deal is not done inside the next three weeks.
Newcastle United unlikely to be sold until New Year, says Keith Harris: Football - Telegraph {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Recreation and Sports > Sports > Football > News and Media {EUROPE > MUSEUMS} - National Portrait Gallery And Harris Museum Purchase Rare Arkwright Portrait http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/arts-and-entertainment/museums/national-portrait-gallery-and-harris-museum-purchase-20081177229.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/arts-and-entertainment/museums/national-portrait-gallery-and-harris-museum-purchase-20081177229.htm Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT The NPG and the Harris Museum in Preston have purchased a portrait of the British engineer and inventor Sir Richard Arkwright by Joseph Wright of Derby. 24hourmuseum.Org.Uk National Portrait Gallery And Harris Museum Purchase Rare Arkwright Portrait {new window}   Www.24hourmuseum.Org.Uk - The NPG and the Harris Museum in Preston have purchased a portrait of the British engineer and inventor Sir Richard Arkwright by Joseph Wright of Derby.
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > Arts and Entertainment > Museums {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Premier League: I will struggle to sell Everton, admits Keith Harris http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/premier-league-i-will-struggle-to-sell-everton-admits-20081155610.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/premier-league-i-will-struggle-to-sell-everton-admits-20081155610.htm Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:12:44 GMT Keith Harris, the merchant banker who has orchestrated the takeovers of five Premier League clubs, said yesterday that he is making "no progress at all" with finding a buyer for Everton, because the club are not an attractive enough financial investment. The Everton chairman, Bill Kenwright, has instructed Harris to find new investors after admitting that the club cannot keep borrowing and with a planned new stadium at Kirkby yet to be financed.Harris explained that buyers of a club would expect to make money because its value should increase by 5% to 10% every year, without them having to spend cash investing in facilities or funding transfers "unless they choose to". Everton, however, does not offer that prospect of profit, he said."The demographics of Liverpool as a city are not hugely compelling," explained Harris, chairman of the merchant bank, Seymour Pierce. "It is not a very wealthy city. Everton share the city with another club which arguably has been in the vanguard for the last decade, and they both have a stadium to build. So the economics need a lot of looking at."Speaking at the International Football Arena in Zurich, Harris said that he expected the Premier League clubs generally to be able to service their debts in the global economic downturn, but is most worried about Liverpool, who have £350m to repay in January to two stricken banks, Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia.The £350m owed to RBS and Wachovia, which includes £185m borrowed by the North American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to buy the club, is due for repayment in January. Liverpool have an option to extend it a further six months, and then, in July next year, must either refinance the loan or find a way to repay it.Harris questioned whether the two banks, which have both suffered hugely in the banking crisis, would want to keep lending Liverpool the money rather than call the loan in. He argued that it was likely to be difficult for the club to raise cash or new investment for equity in the club if they could not borrow the money elsewhere."The one that worries me is Liverpool," Harris concluded. "The banks are two of those that have suffered, so whether they want to lend it again or not, they may not be able to. What normally happens in business is, if the banks won't finance, you have to raise equity."However, he suggested that even if Liverpool cannot raise significant cash to repay or reduce their borrowings, and the banks are not happy about remaining exposed to the tune of £350m, they would probably find a solution because of the prestige and high public profile of the Anfield club. "If they cannot find equity," Harris mused, "well, it's a brave banker that would repossess Liverpool Football Club."Harris is also seeking a buyer for Newcastle United who, he said, are still an attractive proposition, given that they have a 52,000-seat stadium in a one-club city. He reiterated that there was "an interest from two parties, wealthy investment funds, not from the Middle East" but added that the US magnate Philip Anschutz, reported to be interested, was not one of them.Harris argued that most Premier League clubs are well placed to manage the recession if they budget cautiously, because they make enough money from TV rights and the game's huge popularity among fans at home and around the world.He pointed out that a large part of clubs' overall debt is owed to owners like Chelsea's Roman Abramovich and Fulham's Mohamed Al Fayed, who do not charge interest. Manchester United's £667m debt, which has been placed on the club following its 2005 takeover by the Glazer family, is, Harris said, "complex and multi-layered, but the club generates strong cash flow". Arsenal's £260m, borrowed at 5% interest to finance the building of the Emirates Stadium is, in Harris' view, "the most competitive and conservative".EvertonPremier LeagueLiverpoolguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Guardian.Co.Uk Premier League: I will struggle to sell Everton, admits Keith Harris {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Keith Harris, the merchant banker who has orchestrated the takeovers of five Premier League clubs, said yesterday that he is making "no progress at all" with finding a buyer for Everton, because the club are not an attractive enough financial investment. The Everton chairman, Bill Kenwright, has instructed Harris to find new investors after admitting that the club cannot keep borrowing and with a planned new stadium at Kirkby yet to be financed.Harris explained that buyers of a club would expect to make money because its value should increase by 5% to 10% every year, without them having to spend cash investing in facilities or funding transfers "unless they choose to". Everton, however, does not offer that prospect of profit, he said."The demographics of Liverpool as a city are not hugely compelling," explained Harris, chairman of the merchant bank, Seymour Pierce. "It is not a very wealthy city. Everton share the city with another club which arguably has been in the vanguard for the last decade, and they both have a stadium to build. So the economics need a lot of looking at."Speaking at the International Football Arena in Zurich, Harris said that he expected the Premier League clubs generally to be able to service their debts in the global economic downturn, but is most worried about Liverpool, who have £350m to repay in January to two stricken banks, Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia.The £350m owed to RBS and Wachovia, which includes £185m borrowed by the North American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to buy the club, is due for repayment in January. Liverpool have an option to extend it a further six months, and then, in July next year, must either refinance the loan or find a way to repay it.Harris questioned whether the two banks, which have both suffered hugely in the banking crisis, would want to keep lending Liverpool the money rather than call the loan in. He argued that it was likely to be difficult for the club to raise cash or new investment for equity in the club if they could not borrow the money elsewhere."The one that worries me is Liverpool," Harris concluded. "The banks are two of those that have suffered, so whether they want to lend it again or not, they may not be able to. What normally happens in business is, if the banks won't finance, you have to raise equity."However, he suggested that even if Liverpool cannot raise significant cash to repay or reduce their borrowings, and the banks are not happy about remaining exposed to the tune of £350m, they would probably find a solution because of the prestige and high public profile of the Anfield club. "If they cannot find equity," Harris mused, "well, it's a brave banker that would repossess Liverpool Football Club."Harris is also seeking a buyer for Newcastle United who, he said, are still an attractive proposition, given that they have a 52,000-seat stadium in a one-club city. He reiterated that there was "an interest from two parties, wealthy investment funds, not from the Middle East" but added that the US magnate Philip Anschutz, reported to be interested, was not one of them.Harris argued that most Premier League clubs are well placed to manage the recession if they budget cautiously, because they make enough money from TV rights and the game's huge popularity among fans at home and around the world.He pointed out that a large part of clubs' overall debt is owed to owners like Chelsea's Roman Abramovich and Fulham's Mohamed Al Fayed, who do not charge interest. Manchester United's £667m debt, which has been placed on the club following its 2005 takeover by the Glazer family, is, Harris said, "complex and multi-layered, but the club generates strong cash flow". Arsenal's £260m, borrowed at 5% interest to finance the building of the Emirates Stadium is, in Harris' view, "the most competitive and conservative".EvertonPremier LeagueLiverpoolguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Premier League: I will struggle to sell Everton, admits Keith Harris | Football | The Guardian {...} Takeover broker Keith Harris has expressed his concerns over the mooted sale of Everton and Liverpool's debts to stricken banks {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {ENTERTAINMENT > PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA} - Who has secured the services of Rolf and his wobble board? http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/entertainment/publications-and-media/who-has-secured-the-services-of-rolf-and-his-wobble-20081176015.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/entertainment/publications-and-media/who-has-secured-the-services-of-rolf-and-his-wobble-20081176015.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:09:14 GMT Rolf Harris records his legendary wobble board on the soundtrack of a new Hollywood film. News.Bbc.Co.Uk Who has secured the services of Rolf and his wobble board? {new window}   News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Rolf Harris records his legendary wobble board on the soundtrack of a new Hollywood film.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Harris plays wobble board on film {...}
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]]> Arts > Entertainment > Publications and Media {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - '08 SHOCK: Drudge still smearing, distorting quotes, and touting fake allegations http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/08-shock-drudge-still-smearing-distorting-quotes-2008115587.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/08-shock-drudge-still-smearing-distorting-quotes-2008115587.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:12:56 GMT In the past few weeks, media critics have postulated that Matt Drudge's influence in setting the media's agenda -- which the Politico's John F. Harris and Time's Mark Halperin argue in The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 has been great -- has waned this election cycle. In his continuing efforts to drive media coverage, this election season, Drudge has posted a long series of items that were false on their face, misrepresented reports he linked to, or were subsequently exposed as false. As reporter and blogger Greg Sargent wrote in an October 31 post at Talking Points Memo, "Multiple times this cycle, Drudge has pushed stories that have gone belly-up." Whether or not Drudge's influence is in fact waning, these items, examples of which Media Matters for America has compiled below, make a strong case that it should be. October 29 -- World Series Mediamatters.Org '08 SHOCK: Drudge still smearing, distorting quotes, and touting fake allegations {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - In the past few weeks, media critics have postulated that Matt Drudge's influence in setting the media's agenda -- which the Politico's John F. Harris and Time's Mark Halperin argue in The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 has been great -- has waned this election cycle. In his continuing efforts to drive media coverage, this election season, Drudge has posted a long series of items that were false on their face, misrepresented reports he linked to, or were subsequently exposed as false. As reporter and blogger Greg Sargent wrote in an October 31 post at Talking Points Memo, "Multiple times this cycle, Drudge has pushed stories that have gone belly-up." Whether or not Drudge's influence is in fact waning, these items, examples of which Media Matters for America has compiled below, make a strong case that it should be. October 29 -- World Series
Media Matters - '08 SHOCK: Drudge still smearing, distorting quotes, and touting fake allegations {...} Media critics have recently postulated that while Matt Drudge may have once set the media's agenda, his influence has waned and his efforts to inject himself in the media's coverage of the presidential election have largely fallen flat. This election season, Drudge has posted a long series of items that were false on their face or turned out to be false, making the strong case that, if his influence is not in fact waning, it should be. {...}
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - Palin's "Spiritual Warfare" faith shared by Katherine Harris, other pols http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/palin-s-spiritual-warfare-faith-shared-by-katherine-2008114646.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/palin-s-spiritual-warfare-faith-shared-by-katherine-2008114646.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:35:22 GMT Two articles about Sarah Palin, religion, and the internet; both interesting reads. First, a New York Times piece I'd been meaning to blog from a couple of weeks ago, YouTube Videos Draw Attention to Palin?s Faith, which references those YouTube videos with the Kenyan anti-witchcraft-preacher, blogged previously on Boing Boing. Snip from NYT piece: Ms. Palin has had long associations with religious leaders who practice a particularly assertive and urgent brand of Pentecostalism known as ?spiritual warfare.? Its adherents believe that demonic forces can colonize specific geographic areas and individuals, and that ?spiritual warriors? must ?battle? them to assert God?s control, using prayer and evangelism. The movement?s fixation on demons, its aggressiveness and its leaders? claims to exalted spiritual authority have troubled even some Pentecostal Christians. Second, an extensive Huffington Post item by Bruce Wilson with more background on other political figures involved in C. Peter Wagner's Spiritual Warfare movement, including Florida congresswoman Katherine Harris. Wagner is the guy grinning in the image above. Snip from HuffPo piece: [Harris] became notorious for her role in the U.S. 2000 presidential election when Harris, then Florida's Secretary of State, ordered the Florida election vote recount shut down amidst numerous charges of election fraud and irregularity and with Al Gore trailing George W. Bush by only several hundred votes in the contest for Florida's electoral votes which ultimately went to George W. Bush and so determined the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. A recording of an October 3, 2006 conference call [link to YouTube video with 3:26 segment from call] between Katherine Harris, then Florida U.S. Congressional Representative, and Florida evangelist Ken Malone [transcript of call], reported on in a November 4th, 2006 Tampa Tribune story because of remarks Harris made during the call which some took as anti-Jewish, indicates that Katherine Harris was then active in the same national Spiritual Warfare network which Sarah Palin has been associated with and may still be a member of. Mounting evidence suggests John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin is deeply involved with a global religious movement bent on imposing theocracies around the world and whose top leader, C. Peter Wagner, has decreed to his followers it is God's will that a forcible, massive transfer of wealth, from the 'godless' to members of his movement, take place. A recently released 36 page report (online / PDF / highlights) from an independent research team specializing Wagner's movement includes details on what appear to be virulently anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish statements from, and activities carried out by, top leaders of C. Peter Wagner's New Apostolic Reformation. Sarah Palin joined the Wasilla prayer group of C. Peter Wagner apostle Mary Glazier in 1989, Glazier told Wagner and his top New Apostolic Reformation leaders on July 13, 2008 Wilson's HuffPo piece includes embedded videos, including the one above featuring Glazier. Part of what I found interesting about Glazier was the appropriation of bits and pieces of Native American ritual (specifically Lakhota). For instance: the "HO!" she says at the beginning of her sermon, and imagery throughout her ministry website. That, combined with language encouraging politicians who follow this sect to use Pentecostalism to alter the structure of American goverment -- "Local leaders can transform a region, a state, or a nation," the website intro reads. All that and gratuitous drop shadow with scifi fonts! Also, here's your quote of the day, 4:40-5:31 into Glazier's video about Palin's candidacy as a warfare directive from Jesus -- a discussion of God's bulging, wet, exploding membrane. "I see a membrane bulging over this state..." Such language is new to me in the context of religion. A note to BB commenters: I know things get heated around election season, but please note that this blog post does not amount to a suggestion that people should be prohibited from practicing any faith they wish in America. Katherine Harris Was in Sarah Palin's Spiritual Warfare Network (Huffington Post, thanks Ned Sublette)... Boingboing.Net Palin's "Spiritual Warfare" faith shared by Katherine Harris, other pols {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Two articles about Sarah Palin, religion, and the internet; both interesting reads. First, a New York Times piece I'd been meaning to blog from a couple of weeks ago, YouTube Videos Draw Attention to Palin?s Faith, which references those YouTube videos with the Kenyan anti-witchcraft-preacher, blogged previously on Boing Boing. Snip from NYT piece: Ms. Palin has had long associations with religious leaders who practice a particularly assertive and urgent brand of Pentecostalism known as ?spiritual warfare.? Its adherents believe that demonic forces can colonize specific geographic areas and individuals, and that ?spiritual warriors? must ?battle? them to assert God?s control, using prayer and evangelism. The movement?s fixation on demons, its aggressiveness and its leaders? claims to exalted spiritual authority have troubled even some Pentecostal Christians. Second, an extensive Huffington Post item by Bruce Wilson with more background on other political figures involved in C. Peter Wagner's Spiritual Warfare movement, including Florida congresswoman Katherine Harris. Wagner is the guy grinning in the image above. Snip from HuffPo piece: [Harris] became notorious for her role in the U.S. 2000 presidential election when Harris, then Florida's Secretary of State, ordered the Florida election vote recount shut down amidst numerous charges of election fraud and irregularity and with Al Gore trailing George W. Bush by only several hundred votes in the contest for Florida's electoral votes which ultimately went to George W. Bush and so determined the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. A recording of an October 3, 2006 conference call [link to YouTube video with 3:26 segment from call] between Katherine Harris, then Florida U.S. Congressional Representative, and Florida evangelist Ken Malone [transcript of call], reported on in a November 4th, 2006 Tampa Tribune story because of remarks Harris made during the call which some took as anti-Jewish, indicates that Katherine Harris was then active in the same national Spiritual Warfare network which Sarah Palin has been associated with and may still be a member of. Mounting evidence suggests John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin is deeply involved with a global religious movement bent on imposing theocracies around the world and whose top leader, C. Peter Wagner, has decreed to his followers it is God's will that a forcible, massive transfer of wealth, from the 'godless' to members of his movement, take place. A recently released 36 page report (online / PDF / highlights) from an independent research team specializing Wagner's movement includes details on what appear to be virulently anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish statements from, and activities carried out by, top leaders of C. Peter Wagner's New Apostolic Reformation. Sarah Palin joined the Wasilla prayer group of C. Peter Wagner apostle Mary Glazier in 1989, Glazier told Wagner and his top New Apostolic Reformation leaders on July 13, 2008 Wilson's HuffPo piece includes embedded videos, including the one above featuring Glazier. Part of what I found interesting about Glazier was the appropriation of bits and pieces of Native American ritual (specifically Lakhota). For instance: the "HO!" she says at the beginning of her sermon, and imagery throughout her ministry website. That, combined with language encouraging politicians who follow this sect to use Pentecostalism to alter the structure of American goverment -- "Local leaders can transform a region, a state, or a nation," the website intro reads. All that and gratuitous drop shadow with scifi fonts! Also, here's your quote of the day, 4:40-5:31 into Glazier's video about Palin's candidacy as a warfare directive from Jesus -- a discussion of God's bulging, wet, exploding membrane. "I see a membrane bulging over this state..." Such language is new to me in the context of religion. A note to BB commenters: I know things get heated around election season, but please note that this blog post does not amount to a suggestion that people should be prohibited from practicing any faith they wish in America. Katherine Harris Was in Sarah Palin's Spiritual Warfare Network (Huffington Post, thanks Ned Sublette)...
Palin's "Spiritual Warfare" faith shared by Katherine Harris, other pols - Boing Boing {...}
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